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"American technology executives often complain about the inadequacies of public education, and rightly. They worry especially loudly about the lack of higher standards and attainment in the all-critical areas of maths and science. There is self-interest involved, of course. If any industry needs a qualified workforce in an increasingly knowledge-based economy, it is theirs. Yet they are all but silent on a threat to the science curriculum in particular, and to the scientific method in a more general sense."
Read the whole thing. I've often written about the need for rational analysis and decision-making, highlighting the need to identify, raise, and eliminate unfounded assumptions that keep organizations stuck in the mud. In order to do that, critical and rational thinking must be at the core of the educational process, and where more obvious than in the science curriculum, with it's foundations in the rigor mathematics and logic. If the acceptance of untestable assumptions are allowed to re-enter that realm after hundreds of years of driving them out, we run the risk of accepting them throughout not only science, but in management, politics, and societal issues as well. Slippery slope.
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